Prof. Zheng Yan

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow, AIIA Fellow

Dr. Zheng Yan is currently a Huashan distinguished professor at the Xidian University, China. She is an External Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, and AIIA. She received the B. Eng in electrical engineering and M. Eng in computer science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1994 and 1997. She received a second M. Eng in information security from National University of Singapore in 2000. She earned the Licentiate of Science and the Doctor of Science in Technology in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (i.e., Aalto University) in 2005 and 2007. She joined the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in 2000, working as a senior researcher until 2011. She worked as a visiting professor and a Finnish Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for over seven years.

Her research interests are in cyber trust, security, privacy, and data analytics. She has led 30+ projects, sponsored by EU, Academy of Finland, NSFC, MOST, telecom industry, etc. At the helm of a research team with 70+ members, she has supervised 180+ post-doctoral researchers and graduates. She has authored 450+ publications, with 300+ first and corresponding authorships, featured prominently in top-tier venues. 17 of them are top 0.1% or 1% highly-cited ESI papers. She is the sole author of two books on trust management, utilized in teaching for a decade. She invented 220+ patents, among which 150+ patents (including 83 independent  international inventions) have been adopted by industry, a few of them have been incorporated into international standards and widely used in practice with billions of users. She has delivered 50+ invited keynote speeches and talks at international conferences and world-leading companies. Her Google Scholar citation is about 20,000 with an H-index of 71.

Prof.Shiqian Wu

Henan Academy of Sciences, China

Shiqian Wu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2001. From 1988 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor, a Lecturer, and an Associate Professor with HUST. From 2000 to 2014, he was a Research Fellow or Research Scientist with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. He has been the Director of the Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial System since 2019. He is currently a Professor with the School of Machinery and Automation, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan. He has authored or coauthored two books and over 180 scientific publications (book chapters and journal/conference papers). His current research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, machine vision, and artificial intelligence.